TuTh 8:00 - 9:30; Tu 12:30 - 1:30
In addition to teaching music history that emphasizes contemporary and experimental music, as well as rock history, Dr. Suzuki is also active in the music community, locally, nationally and internationally. He is working on a book detailing the evolution of American Minimal music and its relation to contemporaneous movements in the arts. He produces and hosts “Discreet Music,” a radio program featuring experimental, unusual and obscure music on KPFA-FM in Berkeley. As a music critic and journalist, he contributes to several publications, including Musicworks, Progression, Expose and Goldmine, among others.
Dr. Suzuki serves on the Board of Directors of the Paul Dresher Ensemble/Musical Traditions and the Advisory Board of Thingmajigs. He also researches, writes about, and lectures on inter-media arts genres including Text-Sound Composition (Sound Poetry) and Sound Sculpture. He co-edited Boabab, the audio journal of Sound Poetry, delivered a paper titled “Minimalism in American Text-Sound Composition” at the First International Congress of Polypoetry and Seventh Barcelona Polypoetry Festival in Spain, and wrote “The Art of the Voice: Trends in American Text-Sound Composition” in Homo Sonorus: An International Anthology of Sound Poetry. Current research projects include the evolution of minimalism in rock music, and aesthetics, experimentalism and the Christian artist.
Education
- M.A. (Music History), Ph.D. (Historical Musicology), University of Southern California
- B.A. (Music Theory and Literature, magna cum laude), Seattle Pacific University
